Good comparison, thanks. You didn't talk much about video but, surprisingly, I think the Pixel did a better job for video in your comparison. One thing to remember, on the Pixel (at least on my Pixel 5 which is running Android 12) you can change face retouching to Subtle or Smooth, which would eliminate that over sharpening of her face.
Man the RAW portraits from the 4x telephoto look so good! I wouldn't even bother with the portrait mode except for maybe in lowlight. Another great comparison.
Google pixel can't take portrait shots with its telephoto camera but you can take the shot and the portrait effect after in photos app just like in iPhone 13
When you shoot raw on the pixel I actually think it’s better than iPhone. But obviously that is not ideal for everyone. And yeah. If they tweaked portrait mode it could be good. I think the hardware is there. Just comes down to the software side of things
iPhone portrait was better because Pixel’s processing is too aggressive. But for flattering portraits, my 7 year old Fuji XT1 looks gorgeous compared to my iPhone 11 Pro. It’s the same reason - iPhone seems to over-process skin texture compared to Fuji. And it’s not just portraits. In most still photography images, the Fuji just looks a lot better. There are a few difficult situations where the iPhone processing does have the advantage, but usually not. I import a lot of my Fuji photos onto my iPhone. And when I’m showing people some photos on my iPhone, they often ask, “Wow, you took those pictures on your phone?” I always reply, nope - they are from my Fuji. But my point is that for even typical viewers, the difference is noticeable and even enough noticeable to actually ask about it.
he needed to take pictures in 1x in a portrait, since there is not an optical crop from the matrix, but a digital crop, respectively, the photo will be worse in detail than the iPhone in a 3x portrait, since an optical sensor is used there, so this is not an honest comparison and not correct
Many owners are using the pixel telephoto camera for portrait shots and preferring that lens to the main. Assume as per the comment above, no digital crop...up to x4
I'm a new P6 owner and never owned a Iphone. I think they both look great, some pictures look better on Iphone and some look better on Pixel. I think if you owned either one and not comparing them side by side anyone would be happy with the pictures. I like night shots better on Iphone I think. While the Pixel is awesome for night shots, I think it brightens it a little to much, which sometimes tho can be a good thing. Idk I'm not a camera guy, just a average dude that takes pics of random shit and think both these cams are great.
A raw file doesn't serve as a parameter to talk about realism, that is why it is a raw file, because it is equal to a negative. Ultimately it is the photographer who develops the image. What matters is the dynamic range and sharpness, the rest, like the "colors", doesn't serve to measure the quality. From I appreciate is that the raw file on the Pixel looks better than the iPhone.
You should just use the 1x Portrait Mode on the Pixel 6 Pro. The 2x Portrait Mode is digital zoom and oversharpening a lot with bad artifacts. I wish more youtubers talk about the lack of Portrait Mode using the 4X zoom so that Google will possibly adding the feature in later software update.
My thoughts exactly. He shouldn't be cropping to 2x on the pixel to match the focal length of the iPhone. He should have taken the image on 1x for the best quality and then it would be a fair comparison.
Thanks for the comparison, and especially for the raw review. Could you do an expanded RAW review for phones? I found myself having to use only the phone while on a trip where my x100f bit the dust, and shot everything RAW. It worked better than I expected (to the point that I now don't think I need a dedicated camera with me on EVERY trip), but I wonder if there are some better ways to get the most out of RAW on phones, esp the Pixel. I had a Pixel 5 with me at the time, now have the 6.
I agree I've shot with the 6 Pro since launch and for portraits I always shoot in raw because you can tone down the pixelism's. Until Google updates the software to match the hardware I'll likely continue to do so. Great comparison too. Best camera comparisons from a photographer's perspective I've seen consistently 👊🏾
@@WunjoxFlo True. I have the same feelings. That is partially the reason why they haven't changed the sensor for like 4 generations. They developed their algorithms for the IMX363 and now they have to be adjusted to explore all the possibilities the new sensor rig provides.
To Google's disadvantage, I think their software is using the same processing for the new 50MP sensor, as with their previous 12MP ones. That overprocessed look is ruining and undermining the potential quality of its newer sensor.
It shouldn't be an issue tho because you literally can't take 50MP shots. No matter what you do it will still only take 12MP shots (which entirely defeats the idea of a higher resolution sensor). Google just should've used a bigger sensor but with physically larger pixels instead of making them tiny and then recombine them which is stupid.
Stop it my friend... do you want to kill me? It made me breathless after watching a job so well done, detailed, professional like yours... that's exactly what we look for on RUclips... people who know and show what they know without seeming pretentious or bringing a fanboy air of one or another. Now that I've got my breath back... congratulations and thanks!
As a professional working cinematographer I think people get too carried away about photos from phones. I'm guessing most people don't print even 30% of their photos from phones, and usually just share with others on social media where it's further compressed. It all looks the same to me on tiny 6.5 inch screens.
This is where the average consumer will always pick the iPhone. Putting a camera into Raw to get the best photo and then knowing how to manipulate that raw image is not something everyone can do. While it is GREAT to have that ability, I do think the iPhone is better at your everyday shoot EVERYTHING jack of all, and the Pixel is more of a precision tool if you know how to use it properly. :) Both have their use case!
To be completely honest here, before you started "explaining" the photos, I actually preferred the looks of the images from the Pixel. After your explanations, I do see some of the things you are saying, but some of those complaints can be adjusted with the Pixel Camera software both before and after you take the shot. So, I did not change my mind. I still prefer the images from the Pixel.
Right on with you been a pixel user since the pixel 2xl and the camera processing on the pixels are amazing everything can be adjusted now that Google has there own chip they can fix everything and there will never be a device that has the perfect camera
3:47 It's not scaled to 12 megapixels. It uses analog binning (even though the official specs don't mention this), so it behaves like a 12 megapixel sensor (I personally would have preferred a 30 megapixel Bayer sensor for the tele camera). It is simply equivalent to 103mm, whereas the iPhone is equivalent to 77mm. That's why there are more details or approximately 75% more pixels per object.
@@LeeZavitz No, everything indicates that they don't downsample, even if some journalists think that. It is called charge binning, so it's not digital binning and makes the sensor behave more like a 12 megapixel sensor. A pixel can't measure the amount of light 100% correctly, that's called read noise. More pixels mean that the total amount of read noise is higher. For example, 100 light particles (photons) hit a pixel. The pixel doesn't measure the amount of light correctly and thinks that there were maybe 102 light particles, not a huge difference. But if 100 light particles are distributed over 100 pixels, then each pixel receives approximately 1 light particle, but each pixel still can't measure the light correctly, so some pixels think that there were 3 light particles, even though there was just 1 light particle, that's a big difference. That's the reason why more pixels are worse in low-light conditions, more read noise. The 50 megapixel mode of the sensor would lead to more read noise in the shadows because more pixels are read out separately. Google seems to ignore the 50 megapixel modes, I guess that no other 12 megapixel sensor of this size was available. The Pixel 6 (without periscope camera) still only offers 7x digital zoom like the Pixel 3.
@@Quoutub That's correct. They're using quad bayer arrays on the physically larger sensor, and they're pixel-shifting these large quad bayers too (that's what Tensor does. Tensor is an algebra in math). They're treating the thing exactly like a 12mp sensor with larger pixels just like the iPhone 13 pro max. They probably went with the Samsung sensor to save money over the Sony sensor in the iPhone to make Pixel 6 Pro cheaper. Google has always been about reducing noise in shadows. That's what Pixel 5 and 4a 5g and 5a were all about. They did this by using longer shutter speeds and hdr bracketing vs the old way they just did burst shot merging with a constant shutter speed and iso. They differentiated between shot noise and read noise (shutter speed vs iso performance). Pixel 5 reduced shot noise only, for less noise in the shadows. Pixel 6 kept that progress and added reduced read noise via the new hardware (bigger sensor, quad binning (bigger pixels)) for even less shadow noise and thus greater dynamic range in shadows (for photos). Burst merging reduces shot noise but increases read noise. Google used burst merging to keep 'zero shutter lag' (which was a dumb reason IMO and were right to scrap that reason with pixel 5) and because burst merging, though increasing read noise, overall reduces average total noise of a photo (especially in highlights) and increases dynamic range and produces a balanced even exposure (but does nothing for low light photography, which is why 5he original Pixel came with a high cri led flash). Later on Pixel 3 they addee night sight, which still used burst mode photography but added changes to the gamma curve to control color and greyscale tones. They made the photos look like famous night paintings from the 18th century (can't make this up). That was night sight. Pixel 5 changed night sight to add in hdr bracketing with different shutter speeds on different frames to reduce shot noise in the shadows; it uses user hand shake when shooting to do pixel shifting to eliminate demosiacing and eliminate hand shake motion blur from hdr bracketing. And then, now, Pixel 6 uses Samsung's physically larger sensor with quad pixel binning to reduce read noise. Together all these things produce Pixel 6 photos. Videos on Pixel 6 use HDRnet, which is like the old HDR+ burst photography on Pixel 4 but it's doing it for videos. I assume they assumed they'd need zero shutter lag for videos and so fell back on the old hdr+ algorithm used for every frame (so 30 or 60fps). But, it's probably still doing burst merging quad pixel binning and pixel shifting 30 or 60 times per second at 4k resolutions (hence Tensor) and this is probably why you can't shoot 4k 60fps video on every lense/sensor combo because for one the ultrawide is only the small 12mp sony sensor. I also assume Google assumes 60fps implies shorter shutter speeds with burst merging frame by frame via hdr+ thus they need to fall back on/rely more heavily on the larger physical primary sensor and the pixel-shifted quad binning to make it work without a lot of noise in the shadows. I also assume shooting 24fps would make the math weird and hence they exclude 24fps frame rates 🤷🏻♂️. iPhone probably got equaly large and top notch sensors/hardware for every lense on fhe iPhone because it is a higher cost no expenses spared sort of device, sort of (the iPhone does cut costs with display resolution and they do look blurry to me compared to a 515 or 538ppi device 🤷🏻♂️ like ghe Pixel 6 Pro, OneOlus 9 pro of Samsung Galaxy s21 ultra). This means videos on Pixel 6 have more shot noise than photos on Pixel 6 so the dynamic range of videos is worse than the photos a little bit but it's still better than previous pixels' video which had more read noise from the smaller old sensors and no hdrnet at all. All just incremental improvements. Google is always down in the trenches fighting for simple inches and then holding the line against iPhones. They haven't had a definitive breakout moment yet. But I suspect that the 6 pro photos look better because either the physical sensor on the 6 pro is larger than on the iPhone 13 Pro Max or the quad bayer pixel sizes are physically larger than the individual pixels on the iPhone 13 Pro Max. Now, personally, I'd rather have the high resolution image raw without the quad binning because I love high megapixel photography but that's just me. Also keep in mind Pixel 6 has no hdr10, hdr10+ or dolvy vision recording. It's doing just tone mapping. I think Apple is gearing up for dolby vision photos and is intentionally clipping shadows and highlights to test their phones abilities to do that -- maybe on iPhone 14. I don't think it's a coincidence that iphone 12 has better tone mapping on photos and videos than iphone 13 and that iPhone 13 suddenly has a 1,000nits peak brightness display. That's no accident. 1,000 nits is the hdr10 standard specification, along with wide color gamuts. Apple pioneered wide color displays, and created the heif 10-bit wide color photo format that it uses today. With Apple's LTPO display technology we may see true 10-bit displays on iPhone 14 pro. 🤷🏻♂️ I think Apple is gearing up for 1,000nit photos pretty soon if you ask me.
@@robertwilsoniii2048 There no containers or standard formats for HDR/DV ages atm, but Apple is definitely looking out to push for HDR imagery ASAP. They actually already implement their own native version within some of their native apps; iPhone photos capture additional highlight information and saves it as a HDR gain map within the final photo, and the stock Photos app can brighten up those highlight regions past 100% display white. I did notice that the iPhone 13 does blow out photos more often, but the highlight information is probably still there in the HDR gain map, and they can be recovered when viewing the in the Photos app -- photo comparisons in reviews/videos loses this information. In regards to the 1000-nit display, that's not really a "coincidence", it's simply just the best panels that Samsung has to offer, and their own flagships perform the same. 1000 nits is also unnecessary for the implementation of HDR imagery.
This was too short for a camera comparison from a pro. I was hoping for more scenarios. Also as a pro I would chose the pixel since the raw gives u more room to play with. Also I notice that most reviewers know the color profile of the iphone and just prefer it bc they are use to. Do a IG or Twitter blind test on those portraits. Be curious to see results. Tensor, android 12, and those sensors are 6 days old. Waiting for updates to see the changes. Thanks for the review
My 2 cents….it seems to me that one of the main advantages of using a phone camera is that the photos are (for the most part) instantly usable - no post-processing needed. If the only way to make the Pixel photos better is to shoot in RAW and then bring them into Lightroom, iPhone wins. If I’m going to shoot in RAW and then process in Lightroom, I’ll use an actual camera. 🤷♂️
It can it's called highlight slider. If you have more info you can tone it down a bit. If they are too crushed tho you can't really recover it. They will probably tone it down a bit but having more HDR can be easily fixed.
The colors on the iPhone are not at all natural in my experience, the sky is always too blue, skin tone is always orange, white balance with greenish tint and a halo around the trees, the Pixel has excessive sharpness but the colors are much more natural than the iPhone
Both cameras (which incidentally come with a built-in phone :-) are great.. can't go wrong with either. I prefer Pixel for stills, iPhone for video but honestly would be very happy with either. Disclaimer, I'm a Pixel owner.
I don't like big phones, but we have to admit they are better to use with multimedia and almost everything you are able to do with them 🤷🏻♂️😥. Just need bigger pockets 😅
Both phones use super complex HDR algorithms to generate this « dynamic range ». One does it better and it’s the iphone. Apple could have pushed the shadows just like on the pixel, but it just doesn’t look natural at all.
@@louisolivierfortin last year with iPhone 12 models, the shadows were pushed to be bright and people praised how good the dynamic range was. Now the shadows are darker again, people are praising how good the contrast is. Get out of here lol. The iPhone bias is so annoying.
I guess that's your opinion but I'm a photographer and I'm looking at both, here and the Pixel 6 Pro looks waaay better. As far as I have seen, in real life, they're both excellent but here the Pixel wins hands down! Seeing them side by side, zoomed... er punched in. One doesn't do that in real life except to check but I have the Pixel and I seriously doubt it gets much better than that. As for colours, they're easily adjusted any which way on Lightroom on phone. And I find jpeg is fine, RAW is not. Nice comparison! Thanks 😉
I wish there was plugins for the cameras that could alter things like how much noise that is preserved and so, not any "artistic" filters but rather technical settings created by known photographers or manufacturers, like you could get a plugin that change how Hasselblad had processed the image, I think Hasselblad had kept mush of the noise that can give an image character and then spent most energy on realistic colors, and Canon had made the camera take flat images with the attention that the photographer want to edit in post. Btw, thank you for a good video, it was a part of why I chose the Pixel 6.
I already thought iPhone over sharpened too much but that Pixel literally took it to another level. Personally, I don’t like it. It makes it look too smartphone-ish. I always turn down sharpening in Lightroom to make it more realistic. Great video!!
I actually liked the pixel 6 photos better in most of not all the photos you showed. I think most people are biased towards the iPhone because that's what they are used to and what everyone expects.
ok, calm down about "its over sharpening", its comparing phone to phone. You, the user, is not sharpening. Also now you are saying iPhone is more true to life and that is better? So if the picture, looks sh*tty, and iphone takes a sh*tty pictures, its good because its true to life but another phone because it made it look better is not good?
I would rather have the pixel or iPhone. If I’m gonna spend $2000 on a phone with a 1” sensor (that only uses a small part of it) I would rather have a Sony zv1 or something
I can't seem to get rid of my Xperia 1ii the burst autofocus and tracking are killer if I need a still shot bad enough I can shoot raw. 120 fps 4k and a shutter button it seems to capture the candid shots you need
The Pixle is a over saturated, over sharpened and just not pleasant to the eye, however the RAW photos are impressive. Saying that, most people shoot in Auto Mode anyway. The iPhone photos look beautiful and artistic with amazing colour science. For people who want to rely on getting great photos every time without spending time editing them in post, the iPhone is the one to pick! However if you love to upload photos to Lightroom and edit them in post, Mabye the Pixle is the one. Take your pic 📸 Great video!
I think Google made the JPEGs to cater to what most people think looks better; ready to post on social media. But when you shoot both in raw, the Pixel has so much potential. It has more of that natural, ILC look imo.
Finally a real photographer! You're the first one to mention RAW in a Pixel 6 Pro video. All the other "photographers" forgot RAW exists. I wonder how Pixel's 6 Pro RAW compares to Galaxy S21 Ultra? It would be interesting to know which phone retains the most information in their RAW files.
Pixel 6 pro is way better than you showed in your clip. Either you don't know how to use it, either you did with intention because you are in favor of Apple. Pixel 6 pro with the tele camera doesn't need portrait mode which indeed is not well implemented on Google phone. Too bad that I cannot upload some pictures here that I made with Pixel 6 pro, the phone has so much potential, but even in the current state it is better than the iPhone on shooting photos. Even on night photography with no tripod .
@@DameAD. Yeah sure, some people have different opinions even though some may highlight their observations against to what you see you still need to go with your choice
think a lot of stuff will get a whole lot better as the phone ages and as android 12 comes further away from a beta launch, tensor needs real world data to get better since they collect a ton of data from users be it willfully or not.
The real problem and probably the only problem about the pixel camera for me is that Why would they use the 2x mode which is basically the cropped main sensor to shoot portraits?? They have an excellent 4x camera and they waste it It would most likely do much much better with the blur and the oversharpening It's quite sad actually, as someone who takes a lot of portrait pictures I could wrap my head around it , I sold it and got another phone.
I prefer the raw dng from the pixel. Even when I use a DSLR, I never shoot jpg and what has drawn my attention to the pixel is its wider dynamic range. AI computational photography won't be as good as editing an image yourself. So if the pixel is capturing more data in its raw files, I would prefer it over the iPhone as my pocket camera. I am sure the pixel post processing will improve over time with additional software updates. What would be a deal killer is what is baked into the hardware that cannot be fixed later. So I would not go with the iphone.
I wouldn't say never. On my phone, the tripod mode auto pulled out more details while keeping highlights down which the long exposure raw could not. I guess technically you could take a lot of different bracketed shots to attempt this manually, but still. I edited the auto mode shot instead. Raw worked a little better on the telephoto lens
That Pixel's over-sharpening of facial texture is one of my biggest grunt with the pixel cameras. Many pixel donkeys consider it to be better details. It was clearly visible when you zoomed in on the potrait the hair detail on iPhone was so much better compared to the Pixel. Pixel just cranked the sharpening and and facial texture to the max giving out unnatural potraits. While, in the wide landscape shots the Pixel's computational sharpening does gives out better detail than the iPhone.
I like potrait mode in Pixel more. It's over sharpening yes..but at the same time it looks differrent & dramatic..iphone is good but it is as good as what samsung or huawei does in potrait mode, maybe because it's too natural looking true to life shot. I mean you see the person & you see the photo, then you would say..ok..nice! but Pixel is different. You see the person & you see the photo taken & you have that different feeling..you know..it's that wow factor..well..just my opinion anyways. 😊
Constantly doubting whether Pixel sharpened the pics while not realizing that even Apple sharpens the pics is annoying. I much like Pixel's pics more. Apple has washed out looks on all its pics and iphone takes unnatural colours and makes it all blue in almost all the pics while Pixel has the most realistic colours I have ever seen. The details are a bonus on Pixel which Apple can't match.
Overall prefer the iPhone, but more for convinience than everything: it's far easier to move your files to a macbook with airdrop, specifically if you shoot 4k video for example. Camera wise some shot looks better on the pixel, but not enough to overpass the overall convinience of the iphone system if you are already a macbook user. My two cents.
I think these are all issues that google can fix with software updates easily. They have the hardware now so we know it’s just the software that needs to be refined.
@@b.rhodes1342 yet, iphone made a few bug mistakes, and fix it on the next update... Samsung fixed their ui from worse to better. as long the product contained a software that can be updated through the years.. comment of yours is really unnecessary...
It's a bit strange for me that the iPhone is more natural than the pixel, every time I take a picture on the iPhone 12 Pro Max (its colors are the same as the iPhone 13), the white balance is inaccurate and the skin tone is always orange, which I take with the Pixel 4 always looks more natural than the iPhone
I find the colour more natural on the pixel as well. But In some situations the iPhone looked more natural. They both fade blows and are both good. Im just putting them under a microscope
In my experience the iPhone is not at all natural, the sky is always too blue, the skin tone is bad, white balance with a greenish tint and a halo around the trees
I love the dynamic range on the pixel the only reason I stick with my iPhone is because when you edit photos on the iPhone you can push them further before they start falling apart and on my old pixel once you start pushing the photo editing the photo would fall apart faster.
You do get that this pixel 6 is 300% Better and almost 50-100% Better in CPU GPU performance . So i think you are not gonna face editing problems ofcourse the a15 is way faster but still
when you put the raw images into Lightroom, did you make sure Lightroom wasn't automatically applying Apple ProRAW profile to the image? When I import mine into Lightroom, it automatically applies it and I usually bring it down about 50% or so
The pixel is clearly better. Idk why people are picking the iPhone. The lady looks 🍊 in the iPhone shot as if her skin had been smoothened, while in the pixel you can see every single skin imperfection. People don’t like that, but it is what it is. My iPhone 11 Pro Max from two years ago is still running smooth, so I’m not upgrading any time soon. Maybe in another year or two, but I’ll definitely consider returning to Pixel if google keeps improving them.
I'm genuinely amazing that the iPhone has 12MP camera but still manages to compete while every other company is trying to put as many megapixels as they can.
I understand your argument but in reality apple camera isn't impressive there video shooting is but if you go back a few years pixel devices have competed with single camera against other devices not impressed check out the pixel 2 xl that camera was phenomenal compared to other phones and believe it or not that camera and phone can still compete with 2021 phones
What I find interesting is that once you edited the Pixel pictures you liked them better,,,,Most people shoot pix and post them online rarely editing. For pictures right out of the phone unedited I actually think the iphone did a great job,,,,Anyone can use photoshop and then say how great the pictures are.... Once again straight out of the camera the iphone easily kept up with the Pixel. Also using ProRaw on the iphone other than portrait mode one could easily edit and sharpen to acheive similar results... Great review though...
iPhone has better straight out of camera as well as portrait mode. But googles computational raw is better than apple pro raw from lots of tests I’ve done
@@LeeZavitz sounds good. I basically use the iPhone as my daily shooter. I have heard good things about the Pixel. I really like the camera phone comparison’s. Thanks for the information. Well done. 👍
Always been a Pixel user but this time I think they did not deliver as well as they use to do. The Iphone photos is really pleasing so decided to order the 13 pro to test out.
Do people really care about portrait MODE? I just care about Portraits, and the pixels 4x lens is Amazing for that so i think that deserves a ton more attention
Pixel portrait looks bad because its using digital zoom lol. Cmon Google use the 4x telephoto in portraits by default and kill it like you showed after the raw editing towards the end of this video.
pixel for some reason doesn't use the tele for the portrait and uses the wide with digital crop . but raw telephoto portraits from pixel are legit the best and doesn't even need artificial bokeh
Dude, in that portrait shot, her skin tones look yellowish. I really don't like that type of look, so it's the pixel for me on that shot. 👍 Great video!
Super interesting video - I like that I could improve photos by shooting RAW, When I shoot RAW with the Google pixel 4a The pictures get blurry and noisy I hope it will be different with the Google pixel 6.
Great comparison but I don't like the orange look on the iphone portrait shot. The pixel 6 pro definitely over sharpened on the portrait. I guess it depends on what you like.
Is the night mode on either of these phones better than the P30 Pro?. I really have doubts and even though my contract ran out months ago I can't see that there is a phone that beats it's camera apart from the p50, which has no google apps. I might have to just wait it out to see if other manufactures up their game or Huewie get's google apps again?
hopefully Google will refine the computational processing over a few updates. They need to improve the white balance in night shots as I think that's the main area the iPhone has the upper hand. iPhone crushes too many shadows in high contrast scenes whilst the pixel goes a bit too far in it's HDR. I prefer the pixel output but if they could tweak down slightly (or give the option) then it could be perfect. Just wished the pixel 6 pro was a tad smaller.
@4:58 - well, her skin tone is not orange, obviously. Why does the iphone alter skin tones so much? Seen so many reviews, apple likes making peaches 🍑 of people's faces
"iPhone looks more natural" *Nope!* Skin smoothening, warm cast, yellow skin-tones, over-brightening (makes a brunette look like a dirty blonde), black crush issues especially at night and over-saturation as well. Skin looks over-sharpenend on Pixel's portrait as it's not using its telephoto lens.
So what is it about now? Install skin tones with detail or unnatural skin tones and skin softening? Again preference., iPhone always crushed shadows. Her on pixel seems better didn't crush and has more detail. Both are awesome devices in my opinion
I find the iPhone ultra-saturated and I kind of hate that. I don't want the phone to edit the photos for me, I want the most natural colors as possible.
im a long time Samsung user, probably around 10 plus years, but if i had to choose one of these 2 phones as a replacement to my current Samsung. i would take the Iphone over the Pixel any day of the week, the iphone imo has a much more superior camera and the pics look much better. the Pixel seems to be over exposed, over processed and to bright.
Am I the only one who think iPhone's overt saturation makes people look orange all the time??
People love the oompa loompa look lol
You not alone 😂
You can change it depends on your filter
Yes i too feel the same. Orange or red tint is not welcome. It started with iPhone 13 before that it was warm but not orange.
Iphun always have warmer yellow tint
Good comparison, thanks. You didn't talk much about video but, surprisingly, I think the Pixel did a better job for video in your comparison. One thing to remember, on the Pixel (at least on my Pixel 5 which is running Android 12) you can change face retouching to Subtle or Smooth, which would eliminate that over sharpening of her face.
Man the RAW portraits from the 4x telephoto look so good! I wouldn't even bother with the portrait mode except for maybe in lowlight. Another great comparison.
Yeah, forget portrait mode!
Obviously, you have to take into consideration this man's incredible editing skills, but maan! The potential is huuge
the raw really kill the iPhone, like from armature to professional post process
Google pixel can't take portrait shots with its telephoto camera but you can take the shot and the portrait effect after in photos app just like in iPhone 13
Yeah, that portrait shot was really bad on the Pixel. They need to tone down some of that processing
When you shoot raw on the pixel I actually think it’s better than iPhone. But obviously that is not ideal for everyone. And yeah. If they tweaked portrait mode it could be good. I think the hardware is there. Just comes down to the software side of things
iPhone portrait was better because Pixel’s processing is too aggressive. But for flattering portraits, my 7 year old Fuji XT1 looks gorgeous compared to my iPhone 11 Pro. It’s the same reason - iPhone seems to over-process skin texture compared to Fuji. And it’s not just portraits. In most still photography images, the Fuji just looks a lot better. There are a few difficult situations where the iPhone processing does have the advantage, but usually not. I import a lot of my Fuji photos onto my iPhone. And when I’m showing people some photos on my iPhone, they often ask, “Wow, you took those pictures on your phone?” I always reply, nope - they are from my Fuji. But my point is that for even typical viewers, the difference is noticeable and even enough noticeable to actually ask about it.
he needed to take pictures in 1x in a portrait, since there is not an optical crop from the matrix, but a digital crop, respectively, the photo will be worse in detail than the iPhone in a 3x portrait, since an optical sensor is used there, so this is not an honest comparison and not correct
Many owners are using the pixel telephoto camera for portrait shots and preferring that lens to the main. Assume as per the comment above, no digital crop...up to x4
Tbf the 2x on the pixel is just a crop of the main sensor, which is why it looked extra crunchy
Makes you wonder how Apple and Google choose their algorithms. Both seemed flawed somewhat but in different scenarios.
I'm a new P6 owner and never owned a Iphone. I think they both look great, some pictures look better on Iphone and some look better on Pixel. I think if you owned either one and not comparing them side by side anyone would be happy with the pictures. I like night shots better on Iphone I think. While the Pixel is awesome for night shots, I think it brightens it a little to much, which sometimes tho can be a good thing. Idk I'm not a camera guy, just a average dude that takes pics of random shit and think both these cams are great.
A raw file doesn't serve as a parameter to talk about realism, that is why it is a raw file, because it is equal to a negative. Ultimately it is the photographer who develops the image. What matters is the dynamic range and sharpness, the rest, like the "colors", doesn't serve to measure the quality. From I appreciate is that the raw file on the Pixel looks better than the iPhone.
You should just use the 1x Portrait Mode on the Pixel 6 Pro. The 2x Portrait Mode is digital zoom and oversharpening a lot with bad artifacts. I wish more youtubers talk about the lack of Portrait Mode using the 4X zoom so that Google will possibly adding the feature in later software update.
This ist very true. And in Addition you can also edit the face smoothness/ sharpening on the Pixel
My thoughts exactly. He shouldn't be cropping to 2x on the pixel to match the focal length of the iPhone. He should have taken the image on 1x for the best quality and then it would be a fair comparison.
Thanks for the comparison, and especially for the raw review. Could you do an expanded RAW review for phones?
I found myself having to use only the phone while on a trip where my x100f bit the dust, and shot everything RAW. It worked better than I expected (to the point that I now don't think I need a dedicated camera with me on EVERY trip), but I wonder if there are some better ways to get the most out of RAW on phones, esp the Pixel. I had a Pixel 5 with me at the time, now have the 6.
Both are great camera phone. But I think I'll go with Pixel I kinda like the natural color tone it gives
I agree I've shot with the 6 Pro since launch and for portraits I always shoot in raw because you can tone down the pixelism's. Until Google updates the software to match the hardware I'll likely continue to do so.
Great comparison too. Best camera comparisons from a photographer's perspective I've seen consistently 👊🏾
Love the new Pixel
Wait for a couple updates on the Pixel to see what happens. Have to optimize the software better to fit the new hardware
ikr, I think this camera module will stay in pixels for the next few models and they will be taking max out of it with software updates.
Yeah I think so too.
@@WunjoxFlo True. I have the same feelings. That is partially the reason why they haven't changed the sensor for like 4 generations. They developed their algorithms for the IMX363 and now they have to be adjusted to explore all the possibilities the new sensor rig provides.
You get some great lowlight shots bro! Damn
To Google's disadvantage, I think their software is using the same processing for the new 50MP sensor, as with their previous 12MP ones. That overprocessed look is ruining and undermining the potential quality of its newer sensor.
It shouldn't be an issue tho because you literally can't take 50MP shots. No matter what you do it will still only take 12MP shots (which entirely defeats the idea of a higher resolution sensor).
Google just should've used a bigger sensor but with physically larger pixels instead of making them tiny and then recombine them which is stupid.
Stop it my friend... do you want to kill me? It made me breathless after watching a job so well done, detailed, professional like yours... that's exactly what we look for on RUclips... people who know and show what they know without seeming pretentious or bringing a fanboy air of one or another.
Now that I've got my breath back... congratulations and thanks!
As a professional working cinematographer I think people get too carried away about photos from phones. I'm guessing most people don't print even 30% of their photos from phones, and usually just share with others on social media where it's further compressed. It all looks the same to me on tiny 6.5 inch screens.
You should definitely consider to visit an eye specialist
This is where the average consumer will always pick the iPhone. Putting a camera into Raw to get the best photo and then knowing how to manipulate that raw image is not something everyone can do. While it is GREAT to have that ability, I do think the iPhone is better at your everyday shoot EVERYTHING jack of all, and the Pixel is more of a precision tool if you know how to use it properly. :) Both have their use case!
The Pixel really needs to control its blue's in photos, both day and night shots. Hopefully they can fix this with an update.
That girl tho 😍
To be completely honest here, before you started "explaining" the photos, I actually preferred the looks of the images from the Pixel. After your explanations, I do see some of the things you are saying, but some of those complaints can be adjusted with the Pixel Camera software both before and after you take the shot. So, I did not change my mind. I still prefer the images from the Pixel.
Right on with you been a pixel user since the pixel 2xl and the camera processing on the pixels are amazing everything can be adjusted now that Google has there own chip they can fix everything and there will never be a device that has the perfect camera
@@alexchavezdaily2678 Actually, I've been a Pixel user since the Original Pixel XL.
I'm with you on this. To get the right pictures on the pixel you have to shoot your portraits in 1x. I'll be getting my pixel 6 today. Can't wait.
3:47 It's not scaled to 12 megapixels. It uses analog binning (even though the official specs don't mention this), so it behaves like a 12 megapixel sensor (I personally would have preferred a 30 megapixel Bayer sensor for the tele camera). It is simply equivalent to 103mm, whereas the iPhone is equivalent to 77mm. That's why there are more details or approximately 75% more pixels per object.
so they aren’t downsampling 48mp to 12? I thought they were and that’s why it looked so good
@@LeeZavitz No, everything indicates that they don't downsample, even if some journalists think that. It is called charge binning, so it's not digital binning and makes the sensor behave more like a 12 megapixel sensor. A pixel can't measure the amount of light 100% correctly, that's called read noise. More pixels mean that the total amount of read noise is higher. For example, 100 light particles (photons) hit a pixel. The pixel doesn't measure the amount of light correctly and thinks that there were maybe 102 light particles, not a huge difference. But if 100 light particles are distributed over 100 pixels, then each pixel receives approximately 1 light particle, but each pixel still can't measure the light correctly, so some pixels think that there were 3 light particles, even though there was just 1 light particle, that's a big difference. That's the reason why more pixels are worse in low-light conditions, more read noise. The 50 megapixel mode of the sensor would lead to more read noise in the shadows because more pixels are read out separately. Google seems to ignore the 50 megapixel modes, I guess that no other 12 megapixel sensor of this size was available. The Pixel 6 (without periscope camera) still only offers 7x digital zoom like the Pixel 3.
@@Quoutub That's correct. They're using quad bayer arrays on the physically larger sensor, and they're pixel-shifting these large quad bayers too (that's what Tensor does. Tensor is an algebra in math).
They're treating the thing exactly like a 12mp sensor with larger pixels just like the iPhone 13 pro max.
They probably went with the Samsung sensor to save money over the Sony sensor in the iPhone to make Pixel 6 Pro cheaper. Google has always been about reducing noise in shadows. That's what Pixel 5 and 4a 5g and 5a were all about. They did this by using longer shutter speeds and hdr bracketing vs the old way they just did burst shot merging with a constant shutter speed and iso.
They differentiated between shot noise and read noise (shutter speed vs iso performance). Pixel 5 reduced shot noise only, for less noise in the shadows. Pixel 6 kept that progress and added reduced read noise via the new hardware (bigger sensor, quad binning (bigger pixels)) for even less shadow noise and thus greater dynamic range in shadows (for photos). Burst merging reduces shot noise but increases read noise. Google used burst merging to keep 'zero shutter lag' (which was a dumb reason IMO and were right to scrap that reason with pixel 5) and because burst merging, though increasing read noise, overall reduces average total noise of a photo (especially in highlights) and increases dynamic range and produces a balanced even exposure (but does nothing for low light photography, which is why 5he original Pixel came with a high cri led flash).
Later on Pixel 3 they addee night sight, which still used burst mode photography but added changes to the gamma curve to control color and greyscale tones. They made the photos look like famous night paintings from the 18th century (can't make this up). That was night sight.
Pixel 5 changed night sight to add in hdr bracketing with different shutter speeds on different frames to reduce shot noise in the shadows; it uses user hand shake when shooting to do pixel shifting to eliminate demosiacing and eliminate hand shake motion blur from hdr bracketing. And then, now, Pixel 6 uses Samsung's physically larger sensor with quad pixel binning to reduce read noise. Together all these things produce Pixel 6 photos.
Videos on Pixel 6 use HDRnet, which is like the old HDR+ burst photography on Pixel 4 but it's doing it for videos. I assume they assumed they'd need zero shutter lag for videos and so fell back on the old hdr+ algorithm used for every frame (so 30 or 60fps). But, it's probably still doing burst merging quad pixel binning and pixel shifting 30 or 60 times per second at 4k resolutions (hence Tensor) and this is probably why you can't shoot 4k 60fps video on every lense/sensor combo because for one the ultrawide is only the small 12mp sony sensor. I also assume Google assumes 60fps implies shorter shutter speeds with burst merging frame by frame via hdr+ thus they need to fall back on/rely more heavily on the larger physical primary sensor and the pixel-shifted quad binning to make it work without a lot of noise in the shadows. I also assume shooting 24fps would make the math weird and hence they exclude 24fps frame rates 🤷🏻♂️. iPhone probably got equaly large and top notch sensors/hardware for every lense on fhe iPhone because it is a higher cost no expenses spared sort of device, sort of (the iPhone does cut costs with display resolution and they do look blurry to me compared to a 515 or 538ppi device 🤷🏻♂️ like ghe Pixel 6 Pro, OneOlus 9 pro of Samsung Galaxy s21 ultra).
This means videos on Pixel 6 have more shot noise than photos on Pixel 6 so the dynamic range of videos is worse than the photos a little bit but it's still better than previous pixels' video which had more read noise from the smaller old sensors and no hdrnet at all.
All just incremental improvements. Google is always down in the trenches fighting for simple inches and then holding the line against iPhones. They haven't had a definitive breakout moment yet. But I suspect that the 6 pro photos look better because either the physical sensor on the 6 pro is larger than on the iPhone 13 Pro Max or the quad bayer pixel sizes are physically larger than the individual pixels on the iPhone 13 Pro Max.
Now, personally, I'd rather have the high resolution image raw without the quad binning because I love high megapixel photography but that's just me.
Also keep in mind Pixel 6 has no hdr10, hdr10+ or dolvy vision recording. It's doing just tone mapping. I think Apple is gearing up for dolby vision photos and is intentionally clipping shadows and highlights to test their phones abilities to do that -- maybe on iPhone 14. I don't think it's a coincidence that iphone 12 has better tone mapping on photos and videos than iphone 13 and that iPhone 13 suddenly has a 1,000nits peak brightness display. That's no accident. 1,000 nits is the hdr10 standard specification, along with wide color gamuts. Apple pioneered wide color displays, and created the heif 10-bit wide color photo format that it uses today. With Apple's LTPO display technology we may see true 10-bit displays on iPhone 14 pro. 🤷🏻♂️
I think Apple is gearing up for 1,000nit photos pretty soon if you ask me.
@@robertwilsoniii2048 There no containers or standard formats for HDR/DV ages atm, but Apple is definitely looking out to push for HDR imagery ASAP. They actually already implement their own native version within some of their native apps; iPhone photos capture additional highlight information and saves it as a HDR gain map within the final photo, and the stock Photos app can brighten up those highlight regions past 100% display white. I did notice that the iPhone 13 does blow out photos more often, but the highlight information is probably still there in the HDR gain map, and they can be recovered when viewing the in the Photos app -- photo comparisons in reviews/videos loses this information.
In regards to the 1000-nit display, that's not really a "coincidence", it's simply just the best panels that Samsung has to offer, and their own flagships perform the same. 1000 nits is also unnecessary for the implementation of HDR imagery.
Amazing comparison , thank you Lee 💖💖
This was too short for a camera comparison from a pro. I was hoping for more scenarios. Also as a pro I would chose the pixel since the raw gives u more room to play with. Also I notice that most reviewers know the color profile of the iphone and just prefer it bc they are use to. Do a IG or Twitter blind test on those portraits. Be curious to see results. Tensor, android 12, and those sensors are 6 days old. Waiting for updates to see the changes. Thanks for the review
Too short? I can’t win. If I make it too long no one watches lol. I thought I made the video too long so I cut a bunch of extra comparison shots
@@LeeZavitz I think people will watch. People love camera comparisons especially between these two phones.
@@LeeZavitz I would watch it. Just add the chapter markers in the video so I can skip to what is more interesting to me.
yes ,only one (bad) nighttime photo to compare .....
My 2 cents….it seems to me that one of the main advantages of using a phone camera is that the photos are (for the most part) instantly usable - no post-processing needed. If the only way to make the Pixel photos better is to shoot in RAW and then bring them into Lightroom, iPhone wins. If I’m going to shoot in RAW and then process in Lightroom, I’ll use an actual camera. 🤷♂️
My 2 cents. iPhone should have a raw mode natively. But it doesn’t. It’s a stupid camera
@@Mistygio Actually, it’s a phone. 😉
@@Mistygio it has ProRAW feature
Although it seems like processed RAW at times
@@Mistygio it does
I shoot in RAW on my 13 Pro max all the time
HDR on pixel is kicking like a horse!!
Colors can always be fixed easily, but the HDR can't be hide 🤔
It can it's called highlight slider. If you have more info you can tone it down a bit. If they are too crushed tho you can't really recover it. They will probably tone it down a bit but having more HDR can be easily fixed.
The colors on the iPhone are not at all natural in my experience, the sky is always too blue, skin tone is always orange, white balance with greenish tint and a halo around the trees, the Pixel has excessive sharpness but the colors are much more natural than the iPhone
Both cameras (which incidentally come with a built-in phone :-) are great.. can't go wrong with either. I prefer Pixel for stills, iPhone for video but honestly would be very happy with either. Disclaimer, I'm a Pixel owner.
I think with software updates the pixel camera even be better, they upgraded the hardware , so with little tickering you see better photos.
Pixel looks better, sharper, and higher dynamic range. But I’m sticking with my 13 Pro because those Pixel phones are too big.
I don't like big phones, but we have to admit they are better to use with multimedia and almost everything you are able to do with them 🤷🏻♂️😥. Just need bigger pockets 😅
Just get a backpack for the phone. Problem solved 🤷♂️🤣
@@MrRiverwind agree!!
Both phones use super complex HDR algorithms to generate this « dynamic range ». One does it better and it’s the iphone. Apple could have pushed the shadows just like on the pixel, but it just doesn’t look natural at all.
@@louisolivierfortin last year with iPhone 12 models, the shadows were pushed to be bright and people praised how good the dynamic range was. Now the shadows are darker again, people are praising how good the contrast is. Get out of here lol. The iPhone bias is so annoying.
8:35 that's just out of this world quality.
Wish they really used the telephoto camera for portrait
Just use it manually..
You get some natural roll off with a telephoto "portrait" anyway. Plus it doesn't look tacky like portrait modes
Yes like wtf so clean!!!
I guess that's your opinion but I'm a photographer and I'm looking at both, here and the Pixel 6 Pro looks waaay better. As far as I have seen, in real life, they're both excellent but here the Pixel wins hands down! Seeing them side by side, zoomed... er punched in. One doesn't do that in real life except to check but I have the Pixel and I seriously doubt it gets much better than that. As for colours, they're easily adjusted any which way on Lightroom on phone. And I find jpeg is fine, RAW is not. Nice comparison! Thanks 😉
My Pixel 6 PRo is on its way :D Love the raw mode just perfect for photo editing!
I wish there was plugins for the cameras that could alter things like how much noise that is preserved and so, not any "artistic" filters but rather technical settings created by known photographers or manufacturers, like you could get a plugin that change how Hasselblad had processed the image, I think Hasselblad had kept mush of the noise that can give an image character and then spent most energy on realistic colors, and Canon had made the camera take flat images with the attention that the photographer want to edit in post.
Btw, thank you for a good video, it was a part of why I chose the Pixel 6.
I already thought iPhone over sharpened too much but that Pixel literally took it to another level. Personally, I don’t like it. It makes it look too smartphone-ish. I always turn down sharpening in Lightroom to make it more realistic. Great video!!
You think the pixel is bad at sharpening the Samsung is even worse!
I actually liked the pixel 6 photos better in most of not all the photos you showed. I think most people are biased towards the iPhone because that's what they are used to and what everyone expects.
Or you just hate Apple 🤷🏻♂️🤣
ok, calm down about "its over sharpening", its comparing phone to phone. You, the user, is not sharpening. Also now you are saying iPhone is more true to life and that is better? So if the picture, looks sh*tty, and iphone takes a sh*tty pictures, its good because its true to life but another phone because it made it look better is not good?
I don’t know about the photos but man….. iPhone videos are killing this.They are way way better than pixel.
Comparasion Sony Xperia Pro-1 vs Iphone 13 Pro Max vs Google Pixel 6 Pro? Thank you Lee!👍👍👍
Pixel already wins when you mention the two beasts that cost hundreds of dollars more😊
Google Pixel 6 Pro is cheaper than the other two
I would rather have the pixel or iPhone. If I’m gonna spend $2000 on a phone with a 1” sensor (that only uses a small part of it) I would rather have a Sony zv1 or something
@@LeeZavitz You're hands on and the input on the Sony would be appreciated either way.
Must be brainless to buy Sony
I can't seem to get rid of my Xperia 1ii the burst autofocus and tracking are killer if I need a still shot bad enough I can shoot raw. 120 fps 4k and a shutter button it seems to capture the candid shots you need
The Pixle is a over saturated, over sharpened and just not pleasant to the eye, however the RAW photos are impressive. Saying that, most people shoot in Auto Mode anyway.
The iPhone photos look beautiful and artistic with amazing colour science. For people who want to rely on getting great photos every time without spending time editing them in post, the iPhone is the one to pick! However if you love to upload photos to Lightroom and edit them in post, Mabye the Pixle is the one. Take your pic 📸 Great video!
The pixel takes better photos bruh... just better!
Nice comparison of the detail 👍
My God pixel is 😍😍😍
Good comparison buddy hats off.
I think Google made the JPEGs to cater to what most people think looks better; ready to post on social media. But when you shoot both in raw, the Pixel has so much potential. It has more of that natural, ILC look imo.
What’s an ILC look?
@@e.8651 Interchangeable lens camera. Basically what I was saying is: it looks more like a mirrorless camera than a phone camera.
@@linkinparkdrift Got it, thanks!
For the price, the Pixel is doing really great in these even though I prefer iPhone.
Telephoto lens on iPhone is terrible sometimes. Good comparison.
8:36
This looks way better than those AUTO mode shots from both the devices
Yeah best results is shooting “raw” on the pixel. That said iPhone pro raw is also great. I just hate how much noise apple removes from the “raw” file
@@LeeZavitz Yes the de noising is also causing the photos to be smooth and in low light basically similar to a Paint job(or mushy)
Finally a real photographer! You're the first one to mention RAW in a Pixel 6 Pro video. All the other "photographers" forgot RAW exists. I wonder how Pixel's 6 Pro RAW compares to Galaxy S21 Ultra? It would be interesting to know which phone retains the most information in their RAW files.
mkbhd: did you not watch my Pixel 6 Pro review?
Man, photographers are killing these pixel 6 pro reviews! Sick video
Pixel 6 pro is way better than you showed in your clip. Either you don't know how to use it, either you did with intention because you are in favor of Apple. Pixel 6 pro with the tele camera doesn't need portrait mode which indeed is not well implemented on Google phone. Too bad that I cannot upload some pictures here that I made with Pixel 6 pro, the phone has so much potential, but even in the current state it is better than the iPhone on shooting photos. Even on night photography with no tripod .
iphone orange skin. the real skin tones on the pixel is very nice 👍
Makes whole images bad due to over processing and sharpening. iPhone still great
@@MzwandileHarmans over processing is just an excuse by other phones for not able to beat google pixel computational photography
@@DameAD. Even pixel does it especially front Front facing video is not even okay it’s just bad and human faces
@@MzwandileHarmans looks better to me than the iphone
@@DameAD. Yeah sure, some people have different opinions even though some may highlight their observations against to what you see you still need to go with your choice
Would you recommend recording in 4k 60 fps or is 4k 30 fps enough on the pixel?
Yeah right. The portrait on iPhone is better. Because the whole world has a pumpkin coloured face. Really dude?
think a lot of stuff will get a whole lot better as the phone ages and as android 12 comes further away from a beta launch, tensor needs real world data to get better since they collect a ton of data from users be it willfully or not.
Pixel's Portrait is an actual Picasso :)
The real problem and probably the only problem about the pixel camera for me is that
Why would they use the 2x mode which is basically the cropped main sensor to shoot portraits??
They have an excellent 4x camera and they waste it
It would most likely do much much better with the blur and the oversharpening
It's quite sad actually, as someone who takes a lot of portrait pictures I could wrap my head around it , I sold it and got another phone.
which phone did you get? looking to shoot a lot of portraits too
I prefer the raw dng from the pixel. Even when I use a DSLR, I never shoot jpg and what has drawn my attention to the pixel is its wider dynamic range. AI computational photography won't be as good as editing an image yourself. So if the pixel is capturing more data in its raw files, I would prefer it over the iPhone as my pocket camera. I am sure the pixel post processing will improve over time with additional software updates. What would be a deal killer is what is baked into the hardware that cannot be fixed later. So I would not go with the iphone.
I agree
I wouldn't say never. On my phone, the tripod mode auto pulled out more details while keeping highlights down which the long exposure raw could not.
I guess technically you could take a lot of different bracketed shots to attempt this manually, but still.
I edited the auto mode shot instead.
Raw worked a little better on the telephoto lens
Thank your for the video brot shout out from DR✌️
That Pixel's over-sharpening of facial texture is one of my biggest grunt with the pixel cameras. Many pixel donkeys consider it to be better details. It was clearly visible when you zoomed in on the potrait the hair detail on iPhone was so much better compared to the Pixel. Pixel just cranked the sharpening and and facial texture to the max giving out unnatural potraits.
While, in the wide landscape shots the Pixel's computational sharpening does gives out better detail than the iPhone.
I like potrait mode in Pixel more. It's over sharpening yes..but at the same time it looks differrent & dramatic..iphone is good but it is as good as what samsung or huawei does in potrait mode, maybe because it's too natural looking true to life shot. I mean you see the person & you see the photo, then you would say..ok..nice! but Pixel is different. You see the person & you see the photo taken & you have that different feeling..you know..it's that wow factor..well..just my opinion anyways. 😊
Constantly doubting whether Pixel sharpened the pics while not realizing that even Apple sharpens the pics is annoying. I much like Pixel's pics more. Apple has washed out looks on all its pics and iphone takes unnatural colours and makes it all blue in almost all the pics while Pixel has the most realistic colours I have ever seen. The details are a bonus on Pixel which Apple can't match.
Overall prefer the iPhone, but more for convinience than everything: it's far easier to move your files to a macbook with airdrop, specifically if you shoot 4k video for example. Camera wise some shot looks better on the pixel, but not enough to overpass the overall convinience of the iphone system if you are already a macbook user. My two cents.
Apple ecosystem too strong,
I think these are all issues that google can fix with software updates easily. They have the hardware now so we know it’s just the software that needs to be refined.
Buy a product for what it is currently capable of, not for what you hope it might someday be.
@@b.rhodes1342 that has to be the dumbest comment ever
@@b.rhodes1342 yet, iphone made a few bug mistakes, and fix it on the next update... Samsung fixed their ui from worse to better. as long the product contained a software that can be updated through the years.. comment of yours is really unnecessary...
Good job! tHx for this! It's very-very informative! ( ;
It's a bit strange for me that the iPhone is more natural than the pixel, every time I take a picture on the iPhone 12 Pro Max (its colors are the same as the iPhone 13), the white balance is inaccurate and the skin tone is always orange, which I take with the Pixel 4 always looks more natural than the iPhone
I find the colour more natural on the pixel as well. But In some situations the iPhone looked more natural. They both fade blows and are both good. Im just putting them under a microscope
In my experience the iPhone is not at all natural, the sky is always too blue, the skin tone is bad, white balance with a greenish tint and a halo around the trees
I love the dynamic range on the pixel the only reason I stick with my iPhone is because when you edit photos on the iPhone you can push them further before they start falling apart and on my old pixel once you start pushing the photo editing the photo would fall apart faster.
Shocker! Jpeg picture falling apart after editing..shoot in raw format dude.
You do get that this pixel 6 is 300% Better and almost 50-100% Better in CPU GPU performance . So i think you are not gonna face editing problems ofcourse the a15 is way faster but still
when you put the raw images into Lightroom, did you make sure Lightroom wasn't automatically applying Apple ProRAW profile to the image? When I import mine into Lightroom, it automatically applies it and I usually bring it down about 50% or so
The pixel is clearly better. Idk why people are picking the iPhone. The lady looks 🍊 in the iPhone shot as if her skin had been smoothened, while in the pixel you can see every single skin imperfection. People don’t like that, but it is what it is.
My iPhone 11 Pro Max from two years ago is still running smooth, so I’m not upgrading any time soon. Maybe in another year or two, but I’ll definitely consider returning to Pixel if google keeps improving them.
Pixel 6 is too grainy for me, and Iphone adds pop with eyes and hair detail.
Keeping in mind that the pixel hardware is relatively new.. with future updates, it will get better and better
The portrait mode of the iPhone, yes, is very cool, but skin tones are so orange. Maybe Pixel isn't the better, but doing a good job.
I'm genuinely amazing that the iPhone has 12MP camera but still manages to compete while every other company is trying to put as many megapixels as they can.
I understand your argument but in reality apple camera isn't impressive there video shooting is but if you go back a few years pixel devices have competed with single camera against other devices not impressed check out the pixel 2 xl that camera was phenomenal compared to other phones and believe it or not that camera and phone can still compete with 2021 phones
@@alexchavezdaily2678 oh is it, didn't know that. I'm just excited to see how the smartphone and laptop scene is going to look like 10 years from now!
So, to summarize, you had to edit RAW photos of Pixel to compete with the iPhone. Thanks, it's clear now 😉
Good comparison first of all but the 2x is digital zoom so if you had used the main 1x or the telephoto 4x it would look fine
4X will be better but the current google processing still applies way too much sharpening and contracting. that is way normal photo also looks HDR.
What I find interesting is that once you edited the Pixel pictures you liked them better,,,,Most people shoot pix and post them online rarely editing. For pictures right out of the phone unedited I actually think the iphone did a great job,,,,Anyone can use photoshop and then say how great the pictures are.... Once again straight out of the camera the iphone easily kept up with the Pixel. Also using ProRaw on the iphone other than portrait mode one could easily edit and sharpen to acheive similar results... Great review though...
iPhone has better straight out of camera as well as portrait mode. But googles computational raw is better than apple pro raw from lots of tests I’ve done
@@LeeZavitz sounds good. I basically use the iPhone as my daily shooter. I have heard good things about the Pixel. I really like the camera phone comparison’s. Thanks for the information. Well done. 👍
You can tell the difference between overscharpening and details. I think it does the super res zoom to give it more details on a main lens.
Always been a Pixel user but this time I think they did not deliver as well as they use to do. The Iphone photos is really pleasing so decided to order the 13 pro to test out.
U wont be disappointed
The 13 pro is amazing in 3x portrait mode!
What is that stand you're using to hold both phones? I am starting my on phone comparison channel soon and looking for one of these right now. THanks
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Amazing comparasion!👍
Do people really care about portrait MODE? I just care about Portraits, and the pixels 4x lens is Amazing for that so i think that deserves a ton more attention
What.. Portrait mode is the best mode!
Pixel portrait looks bad because its using digital zoom lol. Cmon Google use the 4x telephoto in portraits by default and kill it like you showed after the raw editing towards the end of this video.
Pixel has advantage
Pixel is for professional photographer
iPhone make Social media ready photo so iphone is for social media models 😂
pixel for some reason doesn't use the tele for the portrait and uses the wide with digital crop . but raw telephoto portraits from pixel are legit the best and doesn't even need artificial bokeh
Lee, what's your keyboard? Looks great!
Magic keyboard. Space grey. It was initially launched only with the iMac Pro but later you could buy it separate. I love it
@@LeeZavitz It's a shame that this keyboard is big. In the video, it looks very compact.
Now I am looking for something suitable for travel.
Which mobile is best suggest brother...i plan to buy new mobile...
Dude, in that portrait shot, her skin tones look yellowish. I really don't like that type of look, so it's the pixel for me on that shot. 👍 Great video!
Super interesting video - I like that I could improve photos by shooting RAW, When I shoot RAW with the Google pixel 4a The pictures get blurry and noisy I hope it will be different with the Google pixel 6.
What are you using to view the RAW?
I found the problem that the fotos in the gallery is shown in low resolution but then opens up normal in Lightroom
1:45 Which is which? The left looks better, while the right is racking exposure and seems jarring.
I am all in for pixel color science, upgrading from 12 pro. 😊
Lee, can i expect a pixel 6 vs fuji gfx ? Coz 50 megapixels right 😎🤘🏾
That would be a cool comparison but pixels 50mp is a sensor pixel count and not photo output count. Photos are output at 12.5mp.
Just say I 'm moving from 12 Pro to Pixel. Don't say "I'm upgrading". Moving from 12 Pro to Pixel is a downgrade, not an upgrade 😆
Great comparison but I don't like the orange look on the iphone portrait shot. The pixel 6 pro definitely over sharpened on the portrait. I guess it depends on what you like.
Is the night mode on either of these phones better than the P30 Pro?. I really have doubts and even though my contract ran out months ago I can't see that there is a phone that beats it's camera apart from the p50, which has no google apps. I might have to just wait it out to see if other manufactures up their game or Huewie get's google apps again?
Obviously an iPhone fan here doing a pixel review so yea okay. It's more like his opinion and not a full review. Buy the phone u like and that's that
hopefully Google will refine the computational processing over a few updates. They need to improve the white balance in night shots as I think that's the main area the iPhone has the upper hand. iPhone crushes too many shadows in high contrast scenes whilst the pixel goes a bit too far in it's HDR. I prefer the pixel output but if they could tweak down slightly (or give the option) then it could be perfect. Just wished the pixel 6 pro was a tad smaller.
@4:58 - well, her skin tone is not orange, obviously. Why does the iphone alter skin tones so much? Seen so many reviews, apple likes making peaches 🍑 of people's faces
"iPhone looks more natural"
*Nope!*
Skin smoothening, warm cast, yellow skin-tones, over-brightening (makes a brunette look like a dirty blonde), black crush issues especially at night and over-saturation as well.
Skin looks over-sharpenend on Pixel's portrait as it's not using its telephoto lens.
Is it possible that you shared the name of the model? Thanks!
So what is it about now? Install skin tones with detail or unnatural skin tones and skin softening? Again preference., iPhone always crushed shadows. Her on pixel seems better didn't crush and has more detail. Both are awesome devices in my opinion
I find the iPhone ultra-saturated and I kind of hate that. I don't want the phone to edit the photos for me, I want the most natural colors as possible.
NICE WORK .DO THE SAME COMPARISON BETWEEN THESE VS HUAWEI P50 PRO OR MAYBE MATE 40 PRO .
Orange skin tone on iPhone is horrible.
I agree. I have the pixel 6 and can't stand the way it does portrait shots. Way too sharp. Great phone tho just needs a few tweaks
im a long time Samsung user, probably around 10 plus years, but if i had to choose one of these 2 phones as a replacement to my current Samsung. i would take the Iphone over the Pixel any day of the week, the iphone imo has a much more superior camera and the pics look much better. the Pixel seems to be over exposed, over processed and to bright.